Nov 24, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2024-2025 
    
USC Catalogue 2024-2025

Journalism (BA)*


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Building upon Annenberg’s record of innovation in journalism education, the BA in Journalism offers a forward-thinking curriculum that encourages students to embrace technology, assess it critically, and employ it in the service of powerful and effective journalism. Team-taught courses leverage faculty expertise in video, audio, text and digital journalism to help students establish their reporting and writing expertise across multiple platforms. Through a newly integrated Media Center experience, students will acquire the editing, production and digital storytelling skills to produce journalism across a range of media. At the conclusion of the degree program, students will complete an advanced reporting project that showcases their abilities.

Students are required to complete 44 units for the major, including 30 units required core courses.

Annenberg Experience


Choose one of the following required core courses (4 units total):

Upper-Division Electives


Complete 8-10 upper division journalism or public relations elective units chosen in consultation with your adviser. Note: Students who choose a 4-unit Advanced Reporting course will need 10 units of upper division electives; students who choose a 6-unit Advanced Reporting course will need 8 units of upper division electives.

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